More Incredible Italian Watermelon Carvings

Tourists returning home from some of Italy's finest Mediterranean cruise ships have been showing off some amazing photos, not not of the Pantheon, the Prado or Persepolis -- but of the popular art of watermelon carving!

Incredible!

Some of the creations are breathtaking -- wonderful artworks crafted from watermelons? They're both tasteful and tasty! The craze is said by some to have started on Italian cruise ships in the Mediterranean. Others credit a Japanese chef known as Takashi, but he told an interviewer that he learned watermelon carving while vacationing in Thailand.